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This happened to me the other day: I have this awesome Minecraft world (my main map), on which I’ve built a bunch of awesome cities with a few friends. Now, the problem arose when I decided that I wanted to build a snow-themed village. You see, my map doesn’t have any snow biomes within a few thousand blocks of the spawn point. Since there was no way in hell that I would start over on a new map, I set off to fin a way to change an existing Mineraft world’s biomes.

Let’s say we have this nice little map that we want to change into a snow world:

The first thing we need to do is to download and install a program called WorldPainter, which is available here: http://www.worldpainter.net/

The other day, I was playing on an old Minecraft singleplayer map when I encountered an unfortunate problem: I wanted to change some of the map’s gamerules, but I was unable to do so because cheats were disabled. Having spent several hours on this map, I didn’t want to start over, so I decided to try and find a way to enable cheats on an already existing world.

So how do we fix flowing water in Minecraft? In this post, I’ll show you two methods to do this.

First Method – The vanilla way.

If you’re adamant on using vanilla Minecraft, then there’s no easy way to fix flowing water. The best method is to make a dirt “bridge” over the affected area and to dump buckets of water underneath is, like this:

Unfortunately, this method is cumbersome and takes an eternity… so here’s an easier water to fix flowing water in Minecraft:

Instead of playing around with buckets for a good ten minutes, I strongly recommend you use WorldEdit. WorldEdit is a plugin for CraftBukkit servers that can also run on single player maps (If you don’t know how to do this, you should check out this tutorial).

When you have WorldEdit installed, all you need to do is to follow these instructions:

Stand in the water next to the problematic blocks. You need to be one block deep.

In the chat, type /fixwater radius, where radius is a number that corresponds to the radius in which the water will be corrected (If the affected area is large, then put in a large value.). Per example, you could type /fixwater 10, and this would fix any flowing water within ten blocs of you. Then press enter.

I can’t count how often this has happened to me: I want to build an epic city in Minecraft, but I first have to clear a huge forest. The small trees aren’t so bad to cut, but the large ones are… well, you know…

So, is there an easy way to clear a forest in Minecraft? In survival, unfortunately not. BUT, if you’re willing to use third-party tools, there are two easy methods to get rid of those pesky trees.

This is my favourite way to quickly get rid of forests, but it only works if you host your world on a CraftBukkit server. The first thing you’ll need to do is to install WorldEdit or VoxelSniper, then, use these commands:

For WorldEdit:

Type //brush <brush type> air <brush size>

Per example: //brush sphere air 5

Then, type //mask leaves

What this does is create a spherical brush that replaces every “leaves” bloc with air.

You can now spam right-click around the area you wish to clear to remove all the leaves:

Now, all that’s left to do is to remove those pesky logs. Type //mask log and spam right-click once more:

For VoxelSniper:

Removing trees with VoxelSniper is similar to removing trees with WorldEdit, but the commands differ.

You first need to type /v air, then /b b mm.

You then need to select a brush size by typing /b <size> (per example, /b 10)

Finally, type /vr leaves

Now, put an arrow in your hand and spam right-click over the area to clear:

Once you’re done removing the leaves, type /vr log and right-click over the area to clear:

So that’s how you remove forests with world-editing plugins. Now, this method is nice and simple, but it doesn’t work if you don’t have a Craftbukkit server. If this is the case, then you might want to consider the second method.

MCEdit is a superb Minecraft world editor. It allows you to move around parts of the map, create structures and more. Here, I will show you how you can clear all the trees in an area with this program.

First off, load the world by clicking on “Open a level…” and then navigating to your world’s “level.dat” file.

You then need to select the region that you want to clear:

Then, click on “Fill and Replace”, then on “Ok”, then on “Replace”.

Under the “Find” option, select leaves, and under the “Replace with” option, select air. Once this is done, click replace.

This should remove all the leaves in the selected area (Keep in mind that you might need to do this for all the different types of leaves in the area). You now need to remove the logs.

To remove the logs, repeat the steps above, but under the “Find” option, select Wood instead of Leaves, then click replace (Once more, keep in mind that you might need to repeat this process for all the types of wood in the area).

When you’re satisfied with the result, save the map (Ctrl+S) and close MCEdit!